Muna Naash, Ph.D. - OU Medicine

Title: Transgenic models to study the mechanism of visual loss associated with mutations in photoreceptor
specific genes.
27. IX International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, Durango, CO, 2001, Title: Animal Models of Human
Retinal Diseases and the Application of Gene Therapy.
28. Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 25, 2001, Title:
Gene therapy in animal models of Retinal Diseases: problems and prospects.
29. Vision Club Meeting at The Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma
Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, May 8, 2001, Title: Ribozyme therapy in animal models of
Retinal Diseases.
30. University of Colorado Human Medical Genetic Program Seminar Series, April 12, 2001, Title: Ribozyme
therapy in animal models of Retinal Diseases.
31. The Macular Society Meeting (24 th Annual), Scottsdale, AZ, February 23-26, 2000, Title: Ribozyme therapy
in transgenic model of congenital stationary night blindness
32. Foundation Fighting Blindness, Regional Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 29, 2000, Title: Application of gene
therapy in animal models of retinal degenerative disorders.
33. Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK,
Decade of the Brain, September 29, 2000, Title: Animal models of human retinal diseases and the
application of ribozyme therapy.
34. The Macular Society Meeting (23 rd Annual), Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, February 23-26, 2000, Title:
Transgenic model of cone degeneration and the application of gene therapy
35. Annual Research Symposium on Genetics in Clinical Research, Seattle, WA, December 9-13, 1999, Title:
Animal models of human retinal diseases and the application of gene therapy
36. Mouse Retinal Degenerations Symposium and workshop at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME,
September 26-29, 1999, Title: Transgenic models of retinal degeneration due to mutations in peripherin/rds
gene
37. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1999,
Title: The role of peripherin/rds gene in human retinal diseases.
38. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Michigan, An Arbor, MI, 1999, Title: Animal models of human
retinal diseases.
39. Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 1999, Title:
Animal models of human retinal diseases and the application of ribozyme therapy.
40. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL, 1999, Title: Functional abnormalities
associated with various mutations in the rhodopsin gene: Studies in transgenic mice.
41. Department of Ophthalmology, Saint Louis University Eye Institute, Saint Louis University Health Sciences
Center, Saint Louis, MO, 1998, Title: The effect of peripherin/rds haploinsufficiency on rod and cone
photoreceptors.
42. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998, Title:
Animal models of human retinal diseases: studies on transgenic mice.
43. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Milwaukee, WI, 1998, Title: Transgenic mice
and retinal diseases.
44. Department of Neurology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1997, Title: Gene therapy for retinal
degeneration.
45. VII International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, Sendai, Japan, 1996, Title: Functional abnormalities
associated with various mutations in the rhodopsin gene: studies on transgenic mice.
46. XII International Congress of Eye Research, Yokohama, Japan, 1996, Title: Light-Induced acceleration of
photoreceptor degeneration in transgenic mice expressing mutant rhodopsin.
47. Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1996, Title:
Photoreceptor degeneration associated with the expression of mutant opsin gene.
48. Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, TX, 1996, Title: Functional abnormalities in transgenic mice expressing a
mutant rhodopsin gene.
49. University of Waterloo, School of Optometry, Ontario, Canada, 1996, Title: Polygenic disease and retinitis
pigmentosa: albinism exacerbates photoreceptor degeneration induced by the expression of a mutant opsin
in transgenic mice.
50. Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, 1996, Title: Functional
abnormalities associated with various mutations in the rhodopsin gene: studies on transgenic mice.
51. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 1996, Title: Animal models of human retinitis pigmentosa and
macular degeneration.
52. Merck Research Laboratories. West Point, PA, 1996, Title: Functional abnormalities associated with various
mutations in the rhodopsin gene: studies on transgenic mice.
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